Emily Yeh is an AI-native product leader who turns what's newly possible with AI into products.

Emily Yeh
10M+
Users reached
12 to 800
Company growth, as founding PM
0 to 1 and growth
AI, fintech, B2B2C
2 iOS apps
On the App Store
Computer Science
B.S., Carnegie Mellon

Selected work

Bolt Founding PM (grew 12 to 800 people) · pre-PM and 0 to 1 · consumer checkout and account experience
Strategy 1-Click checkout, company North Star pivot
Re-bet the roadmap from endlessly A/B-tested guest checkout to a logged-in, 1-click flow.
+10% checkout conversion

Guest checkout had been A/B-tested to a local maximum. Every incremental test came back noise.

The number nobody was acting on: logged-in shoppers converted roughly 50% higher. The ceiling wasn't the form, it was the account. So I made the case to stop optimizing a metric the org already trusted and re-bet the roadmap on identity and a logged-in, 1-click flow.

The hard part wasn't the build, it was the argument. It became a company strategy shift rather than a feature test, and it re-pointed how the team bet the roadmap.

Outcome
+10%
Overall checkout conversion
Insight
~50%
Higher conversion for logged-in 1-click versus guest checkouts

Founding PM. Made the case to leadership, sequenced the roadmap, shipped with the checkout and identity teams.

Growth Bolt ID, a universal identity layer
A shared identity and verification network across merchants that other teams built on.
70% acquisition, 10M+ users

Every merchant rebuilt accounts and verification alone, so shoppers started from zero each time.

Identity is worth more shared than owned: one network beats N logins. I built identity as a primitive with its own activation surface, not a checkout side effect, and won merchant trust one integration at a time.

It became a platform primitive other teams and merchants built on, not a single feature.

Outcome
10M+
Users on the network
Outcome
70%
Account sign-up rate
Bolt ID: a verified shopper identity card linked to a network of merchant, fraud, and verification signals

Owned it 0 to 1: the primitive, the activation surface, and the merchant adoption path.

Consumer 0-1 Shopper post-purchase experience
Added an account re-engagement channel and Bolt's shopper experience after checkout from zero: order tracking, SMS updates, and a global order dashboard.
30% opt-in (3x target), 50% engagement

Added an account re-engagement channel and Bolt's shopper experience after checkout from zero: order tracking, SMS updates, and a global order dashboard.

Outcome
30%
Opt-in, 3x target
Outcome
50%
Engagement
Valon Senior PM · mortgage-servicing SaaS
Platform Workflow and task management, built for an agentic future
A no-code platform for servicing operators, composing triggers, conditional logic, and human, system, and AI-driven steps in one flow, on primitives other teams reused.
Replaced Zendesk · 200+ agents, 15+ teams

Servicing work lived in Zendesk queues and spreadsheets no team could see across.

The unit of work was a composable step, human, system, or AI-driven, not a ticket. So instead of one-off tooling per team, I shipped a no-code platform ops teams configure themselves, and migrated live queues without dropping regulated work mid-flight.

It replaced Zendesk company-wide, then was wound down when the company pivoted to AI compliance. The platform worked; the strategy changed.

200+
Agents moved off Zendesk
15+
Teams, discovery to rollout
ValonOS: System of Record, Workflows, and Task Management feeding one unified platform

Senior PM, platform and 0 to 1. Discovery through company-wide rollout.

Ledger Lead PM · insurance data pipeline and dashboards
AI Human-in-the-loop AI corrections
Automated 100% of reinsurance policy and claims data review flows with human-in-the-loop, AI-suggested corrections.
~80% less manual review time

Automated 100% of reinsurance policy and claims data review flows with human-in-the-loop, AI-suggested corrections.

~80%
Less manual review time

AI Product Lab (Independent)

Designed, built, and launched end-to-end to make the world a happier & more connected place.

How I work

AI runs through my whole product process as a second brain. It synthesizes, red-teams, and prototypes. The strategy, direction, & insights on human behavior and emotions stay with me.

Oracle for research

AI as an oracle over my own research: it synthesizes my interviews and pushes back on my hypotheses, with exact quotes I can trace to the source.

Red-team the spec

Before the pod sees a PRD, I have AI attack it, the assumptions, the edge cases, the failure modes, so it arrives pressure-tested and data-backed.

Prototype to decide

I prototype in Claude Code and sit next to design and eng to iterate, building a few versions and testing them against each other before picking the best approach.

Two apps on the App Store →

Earlier: Index (acquired by Stripe) and OkCupid. Founded Bella, 15K+ volunteer sessions.

Recognition

Named an "AI Leader to Follow" by Allie Miller, former Head of AI at Amazon 2019
AI & Ethics panelist, Grace Hopper Celebration 2018
Executive 10X Impact Award Bolt
Behavioral-ML research presented at SPSP and featured in New York Magazine 2016

When AFK

I sing with and sit on the board of Harmonia, a barbershop chorus ranked in the world's top 50. Over the years, my love of music has driven my passion for helping more people gain confidence with their voices, teaching 850+ lessons.

On the side, I'm teaching a 2-month bootcamp to help people across non-tech industries become tech product thinkers and builders.

Off the clock, I'm usually doing my best to spoil my dog.

Emily and her partner with their dog on the City Hall staircase